Necla Ruzgar Exhibition
IF A BIRD AND A FISH FALL IN LOVE WHERE DO THEY NEST? The poetic question that gave its name to this exhibition is about investigating the chances for the equalization between those beings that have fundamental or life differences. The works at the exhibition contribute to the growth of a seed planted by impossible romances that we only sea in fairy tales. They produce the images of a utopic union that is beyond all differences of thought and class. The exhibition focuses not on the answer to this question but on the inherent power of this meeting of fragile beings. In the exhibition, previously unseen designs from the series named “My Name was Written on All Pages” that gave the name to the two basic individual exhibitions of the artist organized in Ankara in May, 2021 and in Kassel in November, 2021 were combined with the new water color works on which the artist was working since 2022. These new paintings in which Rüzgar made its own research on mutual reflections and reproductions picture how ordinary is transformed into extraordinary when it intertwined with another, by reminding us certain important massacres in the human history instead of making referrals only to the poems or fairy tales. The exhibition named “If a Bird and a Fish Fall in Love Where Do They Nest?” also offers a chance to the viewers to see for the first time the sculpture-like ceramics of Necla Rüzgar. Very much like the “multi-hearted beings” of Rüzgar, these ceramics seem ordinary or casual at the first sight but when you hold a bowl, you almost see the walls of a cave coming into reality. Necla Rüzgar Necla Rüzgar serves as a professor in the Painting Department of Fine Arts Faculty of Hacettepe University. Her paintings, sculptures, photos and videos are exhibited in many cities including İstanbul, Mardin, Diyarbakır, Lyon and Seoul. In Zurich she was invited to the first Salon Blanche organized by the curators Susann Wintsch and Chris Bünter. In 2017, Swiss curator Wintsch also organized the exhibition “Vertical Dialog” in Galerie Widmer, again in Zurich, that draws attention to the mental and aesthetic associations between Paola Junqueira from São Paulo and Necla Rüzgar. Rüzgar’s works are also viewed in Akademi der Künste Berlin and in the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest. In Basel, it is though The Ayşe Umur, Agah Uğur Collection Exhibition “Freund Schafts Spiel” organized in 2016 in the Museum Für Neue Kunst and through the “The Compiler Screenings” organized in 2017 in Stadtkino Basel that Rüzgar’s Works are presented. Her exhibition named “Creature with Multiple Hearts” organized in 2018 with the curatorship of Deniz Artun in Galata Rum School was a comprehensive retrospective. Later her more recent works selected from this exhibition were invited to the exhibition named “Éloge de la Curiosité” organized in the Galerie Henri Chartier as a parallel activity to the Lyon Biennial. Finally, Necla Rüzgar was invited to prepare a solo exhibition comprising of 100 pieces for the contemporary gallery of the The Grimmwelt Museum in Kassel..
25.08.2023 - 20.09.2023